Catcher Evan Gattis and general manager Frank Wren will be among the traveling party for the first Braves Caravan stop Tuesday at Newnan.
Reliever Anthony Varvaro and assistant hitting coach Scott Fletcher will also make the trip to Newnan for a 3:30-5 p.m. autograph session at Academy Sports + Outdoors, and private event Tuesday morning at Ridgeview Charter Middle School in Atlanta.
Gattis and rookie pitcher David Hale will be on the second stop Wednesday at Greenville, S.C., and on Thursday the Braves will have Brandon Beachy, Tyler Pastornicky and pitching coach Roger McDowell on a private-event stop at Redan High School in Stone Mountain.
For Friday’s stop at Snellville Academy Sports + Outoors, Chris Johnson will join Pastornicky, Todd Cunningham, first-base coach Terry Pendleton and Triple-A Gwinnett manager Brian Snitker.
Reliever Cory Gearrin and third-base coach Doug Dascenzo are scheduled to make the Jan. 25 trip to Nashville and a stop at Academy Sports + Outdoors in Mt. Juliet, and All-Star closer Craig Kimbrel is set to make the Jan. 26 visit to his hometown of Huntsville, Ala., and the Academy Sports + Outdoors in West Madison, Ala.
Wren and Braves broadcaster and Hall of Famer Don Sutton will be on the Jan. 27 stop at Aiken, S.C., and a Jan. 28 trip to the Town Center at Cobb in Kennesaw (4-6:30 p.m.) features a tentative lineup of Jason Heyward, Freddie Freeman, manager Fredi Gonzalez, bench coach Carlos Tosca, and Sutton.
The caravan continues through Feb. 1 and also includes stops in Birmingham (Jan. 29), Chattanooga (Jan. 30), Macon (Jan. 31) and McDonough (Feb. 1) . For complete itineraries and scheduled participants, please go to braves.com/caravan.
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